Listen: ZAÄAR - Live at Le Guess Who?

Curated by Tianzhuo Chen Recordings

Belgian improvisation collective ZAÄAR perform live at Le Guess Who? 2025, curated by Tianzhuo Chen. Relive the full performance with our festival recording:

Welcome to the jungle of psychedelic free-jazz soaked in tribal-surrealist soundscapes, where we reconquest our wild side. With their multi-layered improvisation, the collective ZAÄAR has been turning the heads of psychedelic, experimental metal and space ambient music lovers.

ZAÄAR unleash an untamed range of percussion, thick synth odysseys, hypnotic bass grooves and kaleidoscopic saxophone eruptions: savage and frenzied, every performance being a feral ceremony.

One of the members of ZAÄAR walking amongst the crowd in the Jacobi church during the performance at Le Guess Who?

Le Guess Who? Recordings

The publication of this recording is part of Le Guess Who?’s ongoing expansion of the festival’s recordings archive, with 150+ recordings from past editions now freely available online.

This archive contains audio and/or video recordings of performances by The Dwarfs of East Agouza, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Ali Sethi & Nicolás Jaar, aja monet, ASA-CHANG & Junray, DARKSIDE, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kamilya Jubran, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Tom Skinner, Selda Bağcan, clipping., Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Microphones, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and many more.

Captured at Jacobikerk on Saturday, 8 November 2025.

Audio recording by Philip ten Brink; mix by Marc Broer 
Photography by Lisanne Lentink